Re: Firefox 2.0 user-agent weirdness

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 04:48:05PM +0100, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> Can anybody explain, why FreeBSD uses the official user-agent-string
> and NetBSD does not (BonEcho/2.0) ?
> 
> "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061203 
> Firefox/2.0"

See the link you quoted below.  FreeBSD has --enable-official-branding by
default (because they received permission from Mozilla), we don't.

We don't have such permission (yet) because we have a lot of extra patches,
mostly to make Firefox build/behave better on other platforms (both hardware
and OS platforms), and they're only slowly (if at all) being accepted by
Mozilla...

Use the "official-mozilla-branding" option for Firefox/Thunderbird to build
officially branded binaries.  But you can't redistribute those...

        Geert

> 2006/11/12, Geert Hendrickx <ghen%netbsd.org@localhost>:
> >On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 12:46:54PM +0100, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> >> Hello List,
> >>
> >> I was wondering why Firefox 2.0 is containing the user-agent string
> >> "BonEcho/2.0" instead of Firefox/2.0 in contrast to the previous
> >> Versions like Firefox 1.5.0.7 where it remained "Firefox/Version".
> >>
> >> Any Idea ?
> >
> >Mozilla changed this, not pkgsrc.  So ask Mozilla...
> >
> >See http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/ for details.
> >
> >        Geert
> >